They are fanciful stories of colliding realities, and human dilemmas. I still remember some of the stories from that golden time. What if a box of toys from far in the future fell into a twentieth century schoolyard, and some kid took them home to play with? What if a factory worker from another civilization fell into a twentieth century factory and made what only looked like a commonplace entertainment center? What if you stepped into an upscale shop that advertised, "We Have What You Need"? (And, found out, they really did?) These and many more intriguing conundrums are explored in a wonderful collection of seventeen short stories.Īuthor Henry Kuttner flourished in the golden age of science fiction, which was also, coincidentally, this reviewer's youth. I've never read a book that wasn't 300 percent better than the movie. This definitive collection will be a revelation to those who wish to discover or rediscover Henry Kuttner, a true master of the universe. At the time of his death at forty-two in 1958, he had created as many as 170 stories under more than a dozen pseudonyms?sometimes writing entire issues of science fiction magazines?in close collaboration with his wife, C. Kuttner was a writer?s writer whose visionary works anticipated our own computer-controlled, machine-made world. Ray Bradbury called Henry Kuttner ?a man who shaped science fiction and fantasy in its most important years.? Marion Zimmer Bradley and Roger Zelazny said he was a major inspiration. For the items are changing the way the children think and perceive the world around them?for better or worse. When he and his sister begin to play with these trinkets?including a crystal cube that magnifies the unimaginable and a strange doll with removable organs that don?t quite correspond to those of the human body?their parents grow concerned. In ?Mimsy Were the Borogoves?the inspiration for New Line Cinema?s major motion picture The Last Mimzy?a boy finds a discarded box containing a treasure trove of curious objects. These seventeen classic stories create their own unique galaxy of vain, protective, and murderous robots devilish angels and warm and angry aliens. THE LAST MIMZY IS THE IDEAL INTRODUCTION TO AN AUTHOR WHO WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME?AND WHOSE TIME HAS FINALLY COME.
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